Elizabeth Ramos (she/her)
BELINDA

Elizabeth Ramos is elated to be making her LA debut with IAMA! Other credits include Off-Broadway: New Light Theater Project, Primary Stages, Sheen Center, Classic Stage Company, Cherry Lane Theatre, INTAR, Tribeca PAC. Regional: O’Neill Center, Dallas Theatre Center, Long Wharf Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, Two River Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse, TheatreWorks Hartford. TV/Film: Migrants (official selection at the 2023 NY Latino Film festival and Best Series Winner at the 2023 Georgia Latino International Film Festival); Law & Order: SVU; The Daily Show; STAG. Training: Actors Theatre of Louisville, BFA from CSU Fullerton.

Anna LaMadrid* (she/her/ella)
ROSALIE

*IAMA Ensemble Member

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Anna LaMadrid is a New York-bred/Los Angeles-based actor, audition coach, and entrepreneur, most likely recognized for her role as “Fake Angela,” opposite Nathan Fielder in HBO’s groundbreaking, mind-melding first season of The Rehearsal. Recent credits include recurring as Rocio in Hulu’s This Fool (executive produced by Fred Armisen) and recurring as Lacy Gamble in season 2 of Shining Vale opposite Courtney Cox. Additional comedic TV appearances include The Goldbergs, Tacoma FD, Love, Victor, Call Your Mother opposite Kyra Sedgwick, and Night Court with Melissa Rauch. Anna is an alumn of the Disney Discovers showcase and a two-time recipient of the Groundling’s Diversity Scholarship. Most recently seen in Crabs in a Bucket by Bernado Cubría at the Echo Theater Company, she is a Stage Raw Award recipient for Female Comedy performance for her take on “Betty 3” in Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties at Boston Court written by Jen Silverman (Tales of the City). She received her MFA in Dramatic Arts from the University of Washington. As an entrepreneur, she founded Put Me On Self-Tape; a self-tape studio and audition coaching service in 2016. Clients include Travis Van Winkle (You, Made for Love), Bridget Regan (Batwoman, Jane the Virgin), Dina Shihabi (Archive 81, Jack Ryan), and more. In March 2021, she co-founded an online holistic actor training membership program, The Bridge for Actors, with Alyshia Ochse, actor (True Detective) and host of That One Audition podcast. Together, they have impacted hundreds of actors in leveling up their business, tech, and craft skills.

Kim Griffin (she/her)
ERICA

Kim is an actor, writer, podcaster and standup. She has performed on stages across the country from The Old Globe and the Huntington, to the Humana Festival of New American Plays. As a comic she’s played Haha’s, Flapper’s, Echoes and more. Favorite film and television credits include Comedy Central’s Cursed Friends, A Lotus Til Reckoning, and Dick Bunny, a new digital series. Kim has been the voice of Nordstrom Rack since 2020 for the US and Canada. She holds a BFA from Boston University, and an MFA from The Old Globe/USD. Kim works as a dialect and acting coach, and you can find her podcast Off the F*cking Rails with Kim Griffin wherever you get your pods.

PAULA REBELO (SHE/HER)
BELINDA U/S

Paula Rebelo is a Brazilian actress based in Los Angeles. Select credits include Do You Feel Anger? (Circle X Theatre), Cry It Out (Company of Fools), The River Bride (Arizona Theatre Company), The Clean House (Boise Contemporary Theater), Theatre Movement Bazaar’s Grail Project and Big Shot (South Coast Repertory, Bootleg Theatre, including tours to China and Scotland), Four Larks's The Temptation of St. Antony, and Prometheus Bound (Getty Villa). Paula has received two Ovation Awards for Grail Project and The Temptation of St. Antony and recently an LA Theatre Bites Awards for Best Actress for her work in Do You Feel Anger? Up next she will be premiering Theatre Movement Bazaar’s Tiny Little Town at the Broadwater in February 2024. She holds a B.F.A. from CalArts. www.paularebelo.com

sol marina crespo (she/her)
ROSALIE u/s

Sol Marina Crespo is originally from Caimito Alto, Puerto Rico and spent 23 years in NY before making the cross country drive to LA! She double majored in Drama and Latin American Studies at New York University. As an actor, Sol has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival; American Globe Theatre; Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre; Pittsburgh Public Theatre; PittsStages; Atlantic Theatre and many more. She has appeared on Hulu, Amazon, CBS All Access, and NBC, among others. She has led performance/writing workshops at Pittsburgh University and Lehman College and Teatro Breve in Puerto Rico. Her web series, Public Service, is available to watch at PitchHer Productions. Sol is a 2019 NYFA Fellowship in Screenwriting for her upcoming feature film She’s With Me and a second round candidate for the Sundance Episodic Lab. She currently works as an audition coach with Put Me On Self Tape, a facilitator for The Bridge for Actors and teaches scene study at Crash Acting. IG: @solshine787 www.solmarina.com

JENNIFER KNOX (she/her)
ERICA u/s

Jennifer Knox began her professional career in Chicago, made her Off-Broadway debut in Seth Rudetsky’s Disaster, toured the country as Demeter in Cats, and has performed in over 30 Equity productions with theaters across the United States including the Goodspeed, Broadway Sacramento, Musical Theatre West, Moonlight, Tuacahn, Paramount, and Drury Lane. Her work onstage has earned a Kudos Award (A Chorus Line, Cassie), an Ovation nomination (Dames at Sea, Mona Kent), and a Robby nomination (Holiday Inn, Lila Dixon); other favorite roles include Singin’ in the Rain (Lina Lamont), Chicago (Roxie Hart), Damn Yankees (Lola), Mamma Mia (Tanya), Show Boat (Ellie), The Producers (Ulla), 42nd Street (Annie), Merrily We Roll Along (Beth), and Sugar (Sugar). Film/TV: The Dark Knight, The Blacklist, Stuck. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors’ Equity, currently trains with Tom Irwin at the Steppenwolf West, and teaches jazz for the adult/professional division at the Westside School of Ballet.

Isaac Gómez (they/theM) Playwright

Isaac Gómez is an award-winning New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago based playwright and screenwriter originally from El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. They identify as na’wi – the third gender marker of the Rarámuri, a Mexican indigenous community in northern Chihuahua, of which they’re a direct descendent. They are currently under commission with LCT3, Center Theatre Group, Steppenwolf Theater Company, South Coast Repertory, and Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Their plays have been produced and/or developed by Audible Theater, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Primary Stages, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre, the Alley Theatre, and many others. They are the recipient of the 2018 Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Award, the 2017 Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award at Primary Stages, an inaugural 3Arts “Make A Wave” grantee. Their television credits include the Netflix Original Series Narcos: Mexico, Apple TV's The Last Thing He Told Me, Paramount Plus’ Joe Pickett, among others. They have had television series and features developed by FX, Focus Features, and others. A proud member of the Writers Guild of America West, Isaac is also a WGA Captain, served as a Strike Captain during the historic 2023 Writers Guild Strike, and was nominated by the union to run for Vice President in 2023. Isaac strives to tell stories that often go untold across all mediums of writing.

Jess McLeod (she/her)
Director

Jess McLeod specializes in risky new work about America. NYCLU/Creatives Rebuild Artist-In-Residence; Woolly Mammoth BOLD Resident Director; Resident Director, Hamilton Chicago; Lead Curator, Roundabout’s 2023 Refocus Project. Recent NY credits include Atlantic, Roundabout and P73. Regional credits include Woolly Mammoth, Steppenwolf, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman, Victory Gardens, San Diego Rep, ATL, Long Wharf, Chicago Shakes and developmental work at the O’Neill, WTF, NAMT and Berkeley Rep’s The Ground Floor. Jess works frequently at the intersection of art & activism, and has created operas with community groups (Lyric) and musicals with incarcerated teen Chicagoans (Storycatchers Theatre). Currently under commission at La Jolla Playhouse and Co-Chair, with Michael Korie, of the Dramatists Guild Foundation’s Musical Theatre Fellows. MFA, Northwestern. First-generation Korean-Filipina-Scottish American. www.jess-mcleod.com | @mcjessmc

QUINN O’CONNOR* (she/THEY)
season PRODUCER

*IAMA Ensemble Member

Quinn O'Connor is a disabled producer, stage manager, and arts administrator who has worked at various institutions across the country, including The Public Theater, East West Players, Opera UCLA, L.A. Dance Project, IAMA Theatre Company, and the LA Philharmonic. Apart from producing with IAMA Theatre Company this season, Quinn teaches Stage Management at the L.A. County High School for the Arts and is the Company Manager for L.A. Contemporary Dance Company. Originally from Southern California, Quinn works at the intersection of performance and disability access, both in audience experience and representation by consulting with arts organizations and approaching access through a lens of disability justice. They are involved in various modes of advocacy, ranging from representation in the arts to accessibility in higher education. Quinn intends to open perspectives surrounding disability in the arts sector and create a more equitable environment for all. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Disability Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. @quinnfelisa

KATHARINE MEANS (she/HER)
CO-PRODUCER

Katharine Means is a Los Angeles based actor and theatermaker. She holds a BFA in Acting from CalArts and is currently Center Theatre Group’s Advertising Manager. An alum of IAMA’s 2023 Actors Intensive, Katharine is deeply grateful to IAMA for creating the space to foster L.A. theatre artists. @meanskatharine

rebecca k. hsia (she/her)
production stage manager
fight/intimacy captain

Rebecca K. Hsia is an LA and Seattle-based multi hyphenate artist. Other select SM credits include: Geffen Playhouse (Beyond the Barracks: Veteran Cultural Identity Monologues), Center for New Performance (Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side), Village Theatre (Annual New Works Festival of Musicals); The 5th Avenue Theatre (Rock of Ages; West Side Story; First Draft); Intiman Theatre (Caught; IEAP 2018); Annex Theatre (Silhouette, 2018 Gregory Award winner for Best New Play); Centerstage Theatre (Pajama Game; Rapunzel: A Holiday Pantomime); and Fantastic.Z Theatre (Femme). Thank you to this amazing company for all the love, support, and hard work! She would also like to send love and thanks to her family and friends and MP, Dog Max, and Mila for their endless love and support.

CELIA MANDELA RIVERA* (she/her/ella)
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

*IAMA Ensemble Member

Celia is a Black Latinx/Caribbean theatremaker. In her work, she seeks to center and amplify Black & Brown voices and experiences. Select Directing: Measure for Measure at Art of Acting Studio, Project Nongenue's A Tempest. As directing at Skylight Theatre, Boston Court Pasadena, Echo Theatre, and Ensemble Studio/LA.

Select Acting: Hoops (World Premiere) at Milwaukee Chamber Rep, TIME OUT LA recommended, Love is Another Country at Coin & Ghost, Illyrian Players' Fucking A. She's also worked at La Jolla Playhouse, Antaeus Theatre, Rogue Artists Ensemble, Geffen Playhouse, and The Vagrancy. National Finalist in the Acting Category at KCACTF. Creator & Co-Founder of BLKLST. Co-Author of the L.A. Anti-Racist Theatre Standards (LA ARTS). Both aim to hold Los Angeles-based theatre companies accountable to the larger BIPOC theatre community and to create a systemic shift that centers equitable practices and norms. IAMA’s Theatre Company's Literary Manager and is a company member. B.A. USC's School of Dramatic Arts. IG: @CeliaMandela @BLKLST_LA

Nicholas Ponting (he/him)
set designer

Nicholas Ponting is a designer and stained glass artist based out of San Diego, CA. Recent productions: La Lucha (Optika Moderna in collaboration with The La Jolla Playhouse & MCASD), Everybody (Antaeus Theatre Company), Mud Row (Detroit Public Theatre), Animals Out of Paper (Chautauqua Theatre Co.), Grownup (The Associates Theatre), On Gold Mountain (LA Opera). Nick is a frequent collaborator with David Reynoso and Optika Moderna, creating immersive installations/performances in San Diego, CA. His stained glass work can be seen in San Diego at The Lafayette Hotel, recently remodeled and opened by Consortium Holdings Co. Nick is adjunct faculty at San Diego State University. MFA - UC San Diego. BA - Western Washington University. To learn more about Nick, his work and upcoming projects visit nicholasponting.com IG: @nicholasponting

Azucena Dominguez (she/her)
costume designer

Azucena Dominguez received her BFA in Costume Design from Boston University before moving back home to Los Angeles. Her most recent designs graced the stage of Santa Barbara Opera for an exclusive performance of Die Walküre. She has worked as an Assistant Costume Designer on theatrical shows such as the world premiere of Alma at the Kirk Douglas Theater and Native Gardens at the Dallas Theater Center. She has also worked in the costume department for many well known TV shows such as: Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (HBO), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Disney), Mythic Quest (Apple TV), and more. In addition to her role as costume designer, she enjoys bringing up the next generation of costume technicians and designers through her work at Notre Dame High School, where she has been the resident designer since 2022. Azucena is excited to be working on her first IAMA production on the world premiere of Radical.

JOSH EPSTEIN* (HE/HIM)
LIGHTING designer

*IAMA Ensemble Member

Josh Epstein has designed lighting at many of the top regional theaters in the country, including the Geffen Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Guthrie Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Kansas City Repertory, Geva Theatre Center, Trinity Repertory Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Playmakers Repertory Company, Long Wharf Theatre, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. This will be Josh’s ninth show with IAMA, where he is also an Ensemble Member. Josh is on the faculty at Chapman University’s College of Performing Arts. He is an Ovation Award and Knight of Illumination Award winner and a Helen Hayes Award nominee. He was a recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers and served on the O’Neill Playwrights Conference Artistic Council for over 5 years. Josh received his M.F.A. from NYU and lives in LA with his wife and three daughters. www.joshepsteindesign.com

JOHN NOBORI (HE/HIM)
SOUND designer

John Nobori is a California-based sound designer, composer, and ensemble member of Cornerstone Theater Company. His work has been heard in plays produced by such organizations as Seattle Rep and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Other recent credits include The Geffen Playhouse’s production of The Ants and Pasadena Playhouse's production of Sanctuary City. He has been nominated for several awards for excellence in sound design and is the recipient of an Ovation Award for his work on The Golden Dragon at Boston Court Pasadena. BA University of California, Irvine.

Stephen Heckel (he/him)
Properties Designer

Stephen Heckel has worked professionally as a production manager, set designer, props designer, director, stage manager and producer. He has also worked as an associate professor of theater at CSUN and Pepperdine University. He is a co-producer of After Hours Theater Company in Los Angeles, and worked as production manager for their co-production of The Tempest: The Immersive Experience with LA Shakespeare Company. He is a graduate of UCLA Theater Film and Television School. Notable productions include The Last Five Years: The Immersive Experience and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Immersive Experience with After Hours Theater Company, and director of the VIP activation for HBO’s Warrior. Film: resident production designer at Pareto Labs, art department for various national tv commercials. Theatre: prop design Metamorphoses, Animal Farm and Radio Golf at A Noise Within, The Children and Hype Man at The Fountain Theatre and The Little Theatre at Rogue Machine. Assistant director Allegiance at East West Players, assistant director Rotterdam at Center Theatre Group’s Block Party, assistant director Hostage at The Skylight Theatre. Technical director of Accommodations at the Odyssey.

Rachel Flesher (they/she/he)
INTIMACY DIRECTOR
FIGHT DIRECTOR

Rachel Lee Flesher is so excited to be joining the team at IAMA for Radical! Rachel is passionately engaged in making safer sets and stages around the world by helping to produce best practices for intimate and hyper-exposed content in multiple areas of film, TV, theatre, and education. Currently Rachel is part of the collaboration team advising SAG-AFTRA on their effort to standardize, codify and implement guidelines for on-set intimacy coordinators. You can see Flesher's Intimacy Coordination on over 30 shows on HULU, FX, CBS, SHOWTIME, NETFLIX, HBO, STARZ, Apple, and more. Rachel is a Certified Fight Director, Certified Fight Instructor, and Advanced Actor Combatant with the Fight Directors Canada, and an Instructor with Tactics on Set. They are a certified Intimacy Coordinator, Intimacy Director, and teacher with IDC. Rachel founded the group Intimacy Coordinators Education Collective, a training program geared towards creating individualized learning for participants and accredited by SAG-AFTRA. Rachel’s Fight Direction and Intimacy Direction have been featured at The Old Globe Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and many more. Their goal is to help create safer and emboldening spaces for actors to do daring work through consent culture.

Lanae Wilks (she/her)
Assistant Stage Manager

Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Lanae recently received her MFA in Stage Management from California Institute of the Arts. Lanae has been involved in theater for most of her life and loves to expand her experience in all the industries of entertainment. She enjoys collaboration, innovation, and creating space for her fellow artists. Some of her credits include: Dear Edwina (Children's Roundabout Theatre), IAMA New Works Festival, B.Dunn Movement, daughter, Apolaki: Opera of the Scorched Earth, and many more. She wants to thank IAMA & the Radical team for their incredible work and amazing energy!

Adam Matthew (HE/HIM)
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Adam is thrilled to be a part of the world premiere production of Radical! With three decades of theatrical experience, Adam currently serves as the Production Manager at A Noise Within in Pasadena. Additionally, for the past 10 years, he’s been the Technical Director and Production Stage Manager for the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles. With over 50 productions under his belt, some of his favorite and memorable productions that he has guided is the It Gets Better tour with San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, Dracula and The Snow Queen with Key CIty Public Theatre, and many more as a lighting, sound designer, performer, or stage manager. Alongside his artistic pursuits, Adam cherishes his partner Raven, his chosen family, and his beloved pups Mallow and Taro. He remains a steadfast advocate for live theatre, pushing boundaries, and ensuring the arts thrive.

Jordan bass (he/him)
casting director

Jordan Bass is a partner in bass/casting, a bi-coastal casting company that specializes in curating strong ensemble casts across film. television, theatre, and new media. Select feature credits include Wind River starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olson; Amazon's Chemical Hearts starring Lili Reinhart; New Line's Annabelle, Lions Gate's The Last Exorcism; Blumhouse's Martyrs; HBO/Project Greenlight's The Leisure Class, and Wayfarer Studios' Love You Anyway as well as indies Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town starring Mackenzie Davis, Carrie Coon, LaKeith Stanfield, and Alia Shawkat; and A Violent Separation starring Brenton Thwaites, Gerald McRainey, and Ted Levine. Select TV credits: Ghosts of Beirut (Showtime); Spartacus: Blood & Sand (Starz); Big Time Rush (Nickelodeon); Beerfest: Thirst for Victory (CW Seed); Hyperlinked (YouTube/Disney); The 5th Quarter (Go90); and Vin Diesel's The Ropes (Crackle). Select Theatre: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (Kirk Douglas Theatre), A Kid Like Jake (Pasadena Playhouse, IAMA Theatre Co.), Canyon (IAMA Theatre Co., KDT), The Bottoming Process (IAMA Theatre Co., LA LGBT Ctr., and The Untitled Baby Play (IAMA Theatre Co). Proud Union Member. basscasting.com